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The arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for Russian President Vladimir Putin came at an opportune moment. It was, if nothing else, a...
When Australia – vassal be thy name – assumed responsibilities for not only throwing money at both US and British shipbuilders, lending up...
He was standing before a lectern at Downing Street. The words on the support looked eerily similar to those used by the politicians of another...
History is filled with failed planners and plans, threats thought of that did not eventuate, and threats unthought of that found their way into the...
Before the financial collapse come the aggressive anti-regulation lobbyists. These are often of the same ilk: loathing anything resembling oversight,...
Writing festivals are often tired, stilted affairs, but the 38th Adelaide Writers’ Week did not promise to be that run-of-the-mill gathering of...
Ever so rarely, the human species can reach accord and agreement on some topic seemingly contentious and divergent. Such occasions tend to be rarer...
Diligently and with a degree of dangerous imbecility, a number of media outlets are manufacturing a consensus for war with China, a country that has...
Diligently, obediently and with a degree of dangerous imbecility, a number of Australian media outlets are manufacturing a consensus for war with a...
Over the last week or so, Australian politicians and representatives of the university sector got busy pressing flesh in India, hoping to open avenues...
Over the last week or so, Australian politicians and representatives of the university sector got busy pressing flesh in India, hoping to open avenues...
The scene is unforgettable and unforgivable: an elected official, the deputy prime minister of Australia, cutting loose about a fish species...
The increasingly shabby treatment of former United States marine Daniel Edmund Duggan by authorities has again shown the Australian passport is not...
Over the last week or so, Australian politicians and representatives of the university sector got busy pressing flesh in India, hoping to open avenues...
The treatment of former US marine Daniel Edmund Duggan by Australian authorities in the service of their US masters has again shown that the...
The increasingly shabby treatment of former US marine Daniel Edmund Duggan by Australian authorities in the service of their US masters has again...
Gautam Adani’s (GA) US$218 billion vast imperium specialises in transport, infrastructure and mining, with far reaching feelers that have made their...
The Avalon air show — a celebration of aeronautical militarism in the southern hemisphere which has been postponed because of the pandemic — is...
The global pandemic was not completely catastrophic in its effects. It led to the cancellation, and postponement, of wasteful projects and events. It...
Censorship is never innocent, made worse for its strained good intentions. For those responsible for setting and policing such policies, the inner...
When news first emerged over explosions endured by the Nord Stream pipelines, known collectively as Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, an army of...
It is not farfetched to believe that delivery systems capable of deploying nuclear weapons will lead to them carrying those very same weapons....
The AUKUS alliance is increasingly adopting a nuclear tone. First came the promise to furnish Australia with nuclear powered submarines, absent...
It is not farfetched to make the point that delivery systems capable of deploying nuclear weapons will lead to them carrying those very same weapons....
Things are getting rather bizarre at the US Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Its increasingly prominent...
Inside the beating heart of many students and a large number of learners lies an inner cheat. To get passing grades, every effort will be made to do...
Hysteria over balloons is a strange thing. Hot air balloons made their appearance during the Napoleonic era, where they served as delivery weapons for...
It seems to be a case of little provision for so much supposed effect. The debates, the squabbles, the to-and-fro about supplying Ukraine with tanks...
Through the course of his political life, the current US president has often been injudicious. He has stumbled, bungled and miscalculated. His...
The implications for the AUKUS security pact were always going to be grave, significant, and unnecessary. It further subordinated Australia to...
The announcement this month by the Albanese government that Australia would be acquiring HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) batteries from...
International relations remains the sum game of vast hypocrisies, a patchwork of compromises and the compromised. Every moral condemnation of a...
The dirty bomb and its purportedly famed radiation dispersal attributes has an undeserved mythology. It serves to bloat budgets and confer grants on...
The policymaking apparatus behind the AUKUS security pact was shoddy from the start. It has raised questions about the extent US power will...
Australia’s purchase of High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) batteries from the United States is another irresponsible drain on the public...
The unflinching United States effort to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange for 18 charges, 17 of which are chillingly based upon the Espionage Act...
While the high profile effort to extradite Julian Assange from Britain continues, the case of former United States pilot Marine Corps major and flight...
It was telling. Only David Crowe of the Sydney Morning Herald from the mainstream media turned up to the National Press Club to hear from lawyer...
Things are not getting better for Optus, a subsidiary of the Singapore-owned Singtel and Australia’s second largest telecommunications company....
Imagine the tobacco producer who invests in smoke limitation programs, or the arms manufacturer who attends a conference proposing to ban weapons and...
The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) on September 22 said Australia had violated Torres Strait Islanders’ rights to enjoy culture and...
China’s permanent mission to the United Nations has been rather exercised of late. Its members have been particularly irate with the International...
Foreign Minister Penny Wong on September 6 told us Australia had offered to fund the Solomon Islands elections. “We have made an offer of...
Qantas, Australia’s first and for decades only international airline, is looking rather tattered: its standing diminished in an age of diminished...
The university sector was readying its begging bowls in the lead-up to the federal election. Poor investment decisions, notably in the Chinese market...
Julian Assange’s legal team has taken its next step along their Via Dolorosa, filing an appeal against the decision to extradite their client to the...
China is constantly being accused of secrecy and a lack of openness about security and “defence” arrangements among partners in the Pacific, but...
In one of the world’s most secretive liberal democracies, the revelation that former Coalition Prime Minister Scott Morrison ran a shadow...
The note on Radio National’s Background Briefing on the morning of July 31 was sombre. A student, who did not divulge his real name but is known...
The language is far from reassuring. Despite being caught red handed using facial recognition technology (FRT) unbeknown to customers, a number of...